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- New works make for an exciting theater season (San Jose Mercury News)
Our theater writer advises marking your calendar for the regional premiere of August Wilson's final play, a world premiere by Berkeley's Itamar Moses, the West Coast premiere of Tom Stoppard's most personal drama, David Henry Hwang's reinvention of "Flower Drum Song" and many more.
- Lesbian rights pioneer Del Martin dies - San Francisco Gate
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 Lesbian rights pioneer Del Martin dies 08.27.08 Richmond mom accused of son's torture death can't visit with daughter 08.27.08 Persistent credit-union robbery suspects indicted in S.F. 08.27.08 It's heating up out there 08 ...
- "Eros": A creepy love story entwined with Germany history (Seattle Times)
"Eros" by novelist Helmut Krausser is the creepy, suspenseful story of a German industrialist who tells his story of obsessive love to an author, who must parse out the questions it raises about truth, falsehood and Germany's troubled past
- Sibal recalls July 22 trust vote with poetic rage (IANS via Yahoo! India News)
New Delhi, Aug 22 (IANS) Exactly a month ago, when some opposition politicians tossed wads of currency notes in parliament claiming they were bribed, they did not know that one of their tribe will freeze this moment of 'betrayal and trust' in his mobile and turn it into a poem.
- South Africa: Reading Projects Target Aids Awareness, Science (AllAfrica.com)
In this dusty, crowded township of about 400,000 people, the South African government is driving forward a policy that is key to the country's survival of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and to its long-term economic growth: reading.
- Poetry performance today - Central Michigan Life
Students should make plans to rush to Warriner Hall tonight if they want a head rush. Performance group headRush, which specializes in politically-charged hip-hop, poetry and theater, will perform at 7 p.m. today in Warriner Hall's Plachta Auditorium ...
- Preview: Rock On (Hindustan Times)
Storyline: Dil Chahta Hai director Farhan Akhtar makes his highly anticipated acting-singing debut in this rock-heavy youth drama. His character, Aditya Shroff, is a Delhi boy who leaves his affluent family home to chase his dream of becoming a singer in a rock band.
- • PREVIEW: 'A Celebration of Theodore Roethke' - The Ann Arbor News - MLive.com
• PREVIEW: 'A Celebration of Theodore Roethke'The Ann Arbor News - MLive.com, MI - 1 hour agoBy the time he graduated in the '30s, big revolutions in poetry had happened, but mostly in Europe, and he took some of those ideas and moved them into the ...
- ‘Celebration of International Older People’s Day’ on 1 October - Broxbourne Borough Council (press release)
Broxbourne Borough Council (press release)‘Celebration of International Older People’s Day’ on 1 OctoberBroxbourne Borough Council (press release), UK - 8 minutes agoThis year’s events include a week of free ‘Try Sport’ sessions running from 27 September to 1 October, at which anyone aged over 45 is welcome to try new ...
- Poster poems: autumn leaves - guardian.co.uk
Poster poems: autumn leavesguardian.co.uk, UK - 8 minutes agoAnd Browning isn't the only poet to take a less romantic view of the season. TE Hulme's proto-Imagist moonlit Autumn may be colder than Browning's, ...
- Exhibit a response to book bans - Contra Costa Times
Exhibit a response to book bansContra Costa Times, CA - 36 minutes agoFor example, installation and performance artist Victor Cartagena remembers El Salvadorian poet and soldier Roque Dalton by hanging text from his poetry ...
- FILM ROUNDUP: Timeless message that rings true across cultural divides - Tribune
FILM ROUNDUP: Timeless message that rings true across cultural dividesTribune, UK - 9 hours agoBadlands presents it protagonists’ bloody escapades in terms of lyrical, often transcendent cinematic poetry. Tak Fujimoto’s burnished cinematography is ...
- Artistic licence to see a host of events - Irish Independent
Artistic licence to see a host of eventsIrish Independent, Ireland - 7 hours agoIn Cork, astronomers were on hand to help people observe the moon and stars at Blackrock Castle, while there were music performances and poetry readings at ...Culture Night draws the crowds for evening of tours, talks and ... Irish Timesall 2 news articles
- Pulitzer Winner’s ‘Failure’ Less Than Complete Success - Forward
Pulitzer Winner’s ‘Failure’ Less Than Complete SuccessForward, NY - 4 minutes agoBy Michael Casper In “Failure,” which shares the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for poetry with a volume by Robert Hass, Philip Schultz departs from the measured ...
- Konstantin Pavlov, Bulgarian poet and screenwriter, dies at 75 - Sophia Echo
In a poem called An Air Kiss, he said that he wanted to spread drawing pins on the floor pointing up and to kneel on them. Then, with arms outstretched beseechingly, he wanted to extract a whisper from the depths of his soul, pleading: “Let us love ...
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